Jewish Studies
Birth Chart
A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.
The Holocaust and Masculinities
Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.
A Survivor Named Trauma
Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.
Possessed Voices
Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.
The First Zionist Congress
An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.
Face to Face with Animals
Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.
Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.
Queer Expectations
Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures
Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.
Congress and Diaspora Politics
Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
Signatures of Struggle
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
The Infrahuman
Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.
Cities of Refuge
Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.
The Tragedy of Optimism
Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.
A Queer Way Out
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
Storytelling
An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable
Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.
Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project
An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.
The Full Pomegranate
Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.
Years I Walked at Your Side
The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.
We Are Going to Be Lucky
Tells the story of a young couple in love during World War II, and the difficulties they faced both at war and on the home front.
The Greatest Mirror
A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.